Rainer Maria Rilke(1875-1926)
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Rainer Maria Rilke was born in Prague on the 4th of December 1878 as
the son of a military man working with railroads. After he visited a
military Upper School he tried to avoid the army and did the
preparations for the final exams and the final exams in private. He
went to university to study literature and art. Rilke left Germany for
a journey to Russia which had a big influenced on him. He settled down
1900 in Worpswede, a German village with artists only, most of them
painters. He married one of them, Clara Westhoff, but the marriage was
divorced in 1902. After journeys to Spain, North Africa, Egypt and
France he finally found a man with money: After World War One he
settled down in Switzerland in a castle owned by Werner Reinhart, but
free to use for him. On the 29th of December 1926 he died in a sanatory
in Valmont on Leucaemia. Rilke made some important contributions to the
German literature. His work, including the novel "Malte Laurids Brigge"
and many famous poems, are the standing examples of the literary
"Jugendstil", an epoche in which the authors tried to reflect their
inner views.
